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Defeat in chennai test were england lost even after setting huge target will haunt them. They would too scared to declare they would play 60 overs and will declare with 450 plus
A defeat that owed a lot to a blazing Sehwag start, before the calm partnership between Sachin and Yuvraj. The Sehwag factor is absent, the defeat won't haunt them...
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Defeat in chennai test were england lost even after setting huge target will haunt them. They would too scared to declare they would play 60 overs and will declare with 450 plus
LOl, that was in India, this is England. I don't know why they would concern themselves with that match at all.
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From England's perspective, if there's one guy I'd be worried about in the 2nd innings, its Gautam Gambhir. Unlike most players, Gambhir lifts his game a couple of notches when the pressure is really on. There's no way you're going to see him play that lazy stroke that got him in the 1st innings, in the 2nd innings. With no Sehwag, we need Gautam to step up to the plat one more time and save our bacon. Our lower order has little to no chance in these swinging conditions against these talented, in form English pacers.

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He won't declare before 400 if he has the option even though he could declare a lot earlier. My guess is around 420-430.
i agree around 15-20 overs left in the day would be my guess.
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He got smoked all over in the first innings.
Thats why I said if he bowls well,then his darts can restrict some runs .
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Serious question...who here thinks India can chase down whatever target England sets? Nothing is impossible remember.
I believe so. If Strauss gives India 130+ overs to bat, then they would win it or loose it from that point.
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I hope darter bowls well tomorrow' date='his darts can be of good use tomorrrow in restricting the run flow.[/quote']I do not think it will be that relevant at this point. I think if they bat close to 60 overs they will have a lead close to 400 which means they need to score like 3.3 per over and that is certainly not a huge deal no matter what the dartster does. At this point I am looking for little bit of a rain and some grind from our batsman to get out of this. And one more thing pack Zaheer Khan's bags and ship him to India at the earliest. What a disaster it has been.
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Yeah we have heard that before. Sehwag averages around 30 in the 2nd team innings(3rd or 4th match innings) making him the least reliable and least effective in a batting line up of SRT' date=' RD, VVS and GG and yet somehow we need to be scary of his reputation. Hmm..[/quote'] past data doesnt matter to sehwag, he will do it if he can.
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I do not think it will be that relevant at this point. I think if they bat close to 60 overs they will have a lead close to 400 which means they need to score like 3.3 per over and that is certainly not a huge deal no matter what the dartster does. At this point I am looking for little bit of a rain and some grind from our batsman to get out of this. And one more thing pack Zaheer Khan's bags and ship him to India at the earliest. What a disaster it has been.
Yes but we need to from our side try to delay the inevitable i.e a declaration as much as possible.
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Serious question...who here thinks India can chase down whatever target England sets? Nothing is impossible remember.
No way. Gambhir and Dravid will drop anchor. The only way we could chase a big total is if Mukund plays a Sehwag style innings which is v unlikely.
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Yeah we have heard that before. Sehwag averages around 30 in the 2nd team innings(3rd or 4th match innings) making him the least reliable and least effective in a batting line up of SRT' date=' RD, VVS and GG and yet somehow we need to be scary of his reputation. Hmm..[/quote'] Yeah, probably England's team ran up some numbers on stats guru like you when they declared at Chennai before Sehwag smashed them to bits - oh the predictive power of stats guru! :(( Last I heard, the English team had sued stats guru and cricinfo for making them lose the Chennai test.

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